Re: Racial Classification & credit line

In a message dated 2004:01:02 10:12:11 AM, bpj@MELROCH.SE writes:

> [ . . . ] I have a big problem with the current
>use of 'Asian', since that word to me should include Middle-easterners
>and Bharatiyas.
    I agree whole heartedly - bein' that I am a Pan-Asianist/Internationalist
sort ... with a self-claimed name  _Hanuman Zhang_ this is should be quite
obvious to most educated/culturally-aware peoples...
    I like it that my handful of Kurdish and Uighyr friends call for "an
united states of the Silk Road" and that all of them have Chinese art and music in
their homes - one Kurd Frenchman is even a Ch'an Buddhist, studies Gung Fu,
and is rather famous for his Chinese ink-paintings (which he sells to support
the Greater Kurdistan Liberation Front, which is pro-Chinese in every sense of
that phrase and is militantly "democratic socialist and Pan-Asianist"). I find
myself touched deeply by the loyalty of these Turkic peoples, who were once
upon a time, long ago, China's Western Lands Gatekeepers and Trade Guides.
Without them the T'ang Dynasty wouldn't have been as golden or
"metropolitan"...and we wouldn't have LiPo, arguably China's most famous fav "Dark Poet"...

>  I also feel that 'African', 'European' etc. simply
>should indicate on what continent one was born, not what color one's
>skin has, which to me is a very superficial concern.
    Hear hear!  or proclaim one's closest-held cultural affliation(s), i.e.
if I hafta use one word I use "Sino-British" or "BBC" [British Born Chinese],
or even invert/pervert ex-insultin' "WOG" [Wiley Oriental Gentlemen] and
"Chinaman" into cheeky points-o-pride  <A
HREF="http://www.uglychinese.org/xiashang.htm">uglychinese.org</A>

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